Books: Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World: Nishida, Russi (Eds)

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Title: Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old andthe New World
Subtitle: Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality.
Series Title: Cahiers Chronos 25
Published: 2012
Publisher: Rodopi
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The present volume is a collection of fourteen original papers selected from those presented at the first US installment of Chronos: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, which took place at the University of Texas at Austin in October, 2008. The volume serves as an excellent forum for international scholars working on expressions of on tense, aspect, mood and modality. It contains papers dealing with a diverse variety of languages ranging from well studied languages like English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese, to less known ones like Basque, Chamorro, Iquito, Australian English and Singlish. The originality and relevance of the individual contributions is highlighted by the broadness of the theoretical approaches they employ and the novel empirical data they examine. All the studies go beyond exploring issues strictly related to tense, aspect, mood and modality; rather, they cut across all main linguistics subfields, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and language evolution, thus attesting to how research on tense, aspect, mood and modality is vital to the better understanding of human language in general. This diverse nature of the volume will certainly appeal to broad audience.

ContentsChiyo Nishida and Cinzia Russi: IntroductionAsier Alcázar and Mario Saltarelli: Why imperative sentences cannot be embeddedCécile Barbet and Louis de Saussure: Sporadic aspect as a pragmatic enrichment of dynamic root modalityPier Marco Bertinetto: Tense-aspect acquisition meets typologyPatrick Caudal and Marie-Ève Ritz: Discourse structure and the perfective evolution of the Australian Present Perfect: Some new hypothesesPilar Chamorro: Future time reference and irrealis modality in Chamorro: A study of preverbal <I>para</I>Justin Kelly: The syntax and semantics of infinitival <I>yet</I> constructionsYusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser: Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clausesBrenda Laca: On modal tenses and tensed modalsI-wen Lai: The realis and irrealis distinction in the Iquito languageHiroki Nomoto and Nala Huiying Lee: Realis, factuality and derived-level statives: Perspectives from the analysis of Singlish <I>got</I>Katia Paykin and Fayssal Tayalati: Behavior adjectives: Dynamic, agentive and unergativeAlain Rihs: A defence of the overlap criterion for distinguishing between the French gerund and present participleCinzia Russi: Locating Italian <I>volere</I> 'to want' and <I>volerci</I> 'to be needed, to be required' in the Verb-to-TAM chainKaren Zagona: <I>Ser</I> and <I>estar</I>: Phrase structure and aspect